Producer

This movie did more damage to the fire service than any movie ever made. EMERGENCY on TV awakened the populace of what the fire service was about and did.

It took years to live down the BS that was portrayed in that movie...NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING, was accurate that was shown during that movie...what a disservice to firefighters everywhere...and I worked with the greatest fire department in the world during that time...the LAFD!!!

Producer

This movie did more damage to the fire service than any movie ever made. EMERGENCY on TV awakened the populace of what the fire service was about and did.

It took years to live down the BS that was portrayed in that movie...NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING, was accurate that was shown during that movie...what a disservice to firefighters everywhere...and I worked with the greatest fire department in the world during that time...the LAFD!!!

I can't speak, like you, from experience, but I disliked this movie intensely. I saw it when new and I can't remember why I reacted so negatively toward it--maybe the story, the acting, the direction: everything...But I never had the desire to revisit the film again.

Executive Producer

This movie did more damage to the fire service than any movie ever made. EMERGENCY on TV awakened the populace of what the fire service was about and did.

It took years to live down the BS that was portrayed in that movie...NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING, was accurate that was shown during that movie...what a disservice to firefighters everywhere...and I worked with the greatest fire department in the world during that time...the LAFD!!!

Screenwriter

As a now-retired firefighter, this movie is full of laughs. I can understand the filmmaker's thought about showing faces throughout, but there's so many safety violations in this film. There's not a chance a firefighter would not wear a breathing apparatus in a smoke-filled building...unless of course they want to be part of the rescue in the wrong sort of way!

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Michael Osadciw
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Supporting Actor

Before this thread goes into tense comparison between BackDraft vs Ladder49 on the story of the genre and how it reflects in real life... We need to look at BackDraft(so as Ladder49) as "HollyWood BlockBuster" product. Where dramatization,exaggeration, creation are the 3 elements in movie making such that whatever product comes out and screen on cinemas worldwide, will determine the life and death of either a career or organization/studio.

The key focus of BackDraft plot to the audience, special effects, pyrotechnics, close to ear sound, sibling rivalry...with a certain level of suspense. And that's it. 3 sensual experience vs 2 others that more to thoughts.
Sensual Experience wins.